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I thought, there, where all this began, I might find something of before. Some treasure, some sign... some relic of a former life. In a way I was totally right. In a way I couldn't have been more wrong. I found a skeleton, all flesh decayed and returned to dust. It seems time does not preserve [...]
"Ad Astra - to the Stars" Ancient Latin phrase Oh, Florence. Once again we cross paths, like ships, sailing now for new horizons. Can it really be goodbye this time? I gave up my life in Florence little over a year ago. I packed up, took myself over to Venice, then Athens, rural Greece, through [...]
How can you lose so much of yourself? How can time, troubles, so-called friends, and life's little dramas pull you down so easily? How can everything you've done before suddenly be replaced, by this apparent chaos? This thick, tar-like blackness through which you can see no easy way out? Sometimes, we all lose our way. [...]
On Rome, my first Italian Home, Swimming in Volcanic Lakes, Dancing in the city's Oldest Fountain, and the Art of Letting Go... Rome, the Eternal City - wasn't my first Italian love, but she was the first place on la terra dei sogni - the land of dreams - that I called my home. If Italy inspired the traveller [...]
On Florentine Life, Renaissance Schools, and How I Became the Worst Student Ever... ...and thrived. For many people, the idea of selling all your things and giving up your home, packing a single suitcase, travelling solo across Italy, and enrolling in an Italian school in one of the world's most beautiful cities, is something of [...]
On Getting Down with the Locals, finding Invisible Cities, and My Secret Room with a View... Venice, Venezia, Capital of Northern Italy's Veneto Region, lagoon city of water, stone, glass and gold - the Great Star of the Mediterranean. Everybody who steps onto that sacred isle are instantly captured by her beauty, her romance - her skyline [...]